| 词汇 | kingpin |
| 释义 | kingpin noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/ us /ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/ the most important person within a particular organization（组织中的）主要人物，领袖 Compare bigwiginformal Important people and describing important people actor August augustly baron be the cat's whiskersidiom doyen first among equalsidiom FLOTUS get over something/someone get over yourself!idiom guest of honour heartbeat mogul movers and shakers MVP nibs notable number two superiority the grand old man of somethingidiom kingpin | American Dictionarykingpin noun[ C ] us/ˈkɪŋˌpɪn/ the most important person in an organization: He was the kingpin of the Democratic organization in Chicago. kingpin | Business Englishkingpin noun[ C,usually singular ] uk /ˈkɪŋpɪn/us the most important person in a company or organization, often an illegal organization: a drugs/crime kingpin Examples of kingpinkingpin Current technology allows the chip in its various forms to be the kingpin of new information-gathering systems. Clause 2, however, has administered an appalling knock to society by loosening its most important kingpin, marriage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It represented a cornerstone, a keystone, a kingpin for that commercial community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The kingpin of this agenda, the unifying element that drove our actions and gave them coherence, was enlargement. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The board says that the local licensing committee is the kingpin of the licensing machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The company is the kingpin of the private sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the present system, it is perfectly obvious that we are developing the secondary modern school as the kingpin of our educational system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not meant to be the kingpin of the exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He must now be very proud that transport is the kingpin of the political scene. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was originally regarded as a kingpin in the original proposal and as compensation for the destruction of the estuary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The riveter used to be the kingpin of the yards, concerned with hammering in the rivets which held the plates and sections together. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Wherever one goes and however one looks at the question, the cost of freight is the absolute kingpin upon which the whole economy rests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The registrar is the kingpin who will draw up the register, but he will not be able to pay any attention to it at all for at least a month. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second is a director—or director-general, as it is now rather fashionable to call him in some quarters—who is the kingpin of the organisation and is responsible to the trustees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Public weighbridges are of course envisaged; and the kingpin of the success, or otherwise, of the plating of these vehicles is that there is an adequate number of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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